STEM Competitions

FIRST Robotics, an international educational program that encourages student engagement with science and
challenges student teams to solve a common engineering problem over a six-week time period using a standard kit of parts with no instructions. In 2008, the inaugural FIRST
Hawaii Regional Robotics Competition hosted over 700 students (including 450 from Hawaii) and drew approximately 2,000 spectators. This year, 36 teams will compete at the FIRST in Hawaii Regional Robotics Competition, March 22-24, 2012 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Stan Sheriff Center.

The Hawaii Botball region is the largest in America and this program provides students with the skills, experience and opportunities to succeed as they work on teams to design, build and program a pair of autonomous robots for regional and international competitions. The Botball Educational Robotics Program engages middle and high school students in a team-oriented robotics competition by having them design, build, program, and document their robots.

FIRST LEGO League is a robotics program for 9 to 16 year olds and is designed to create excitement in children about science and technology while teaching them valuable employment and life skills. The competition themes typically reflect a current global challenge and students work together to build robots and prepare presentations on their research and construction.

VEX Robotics encourages teamwork, leadership and problem solving among groups. It also allows educators to easily customize projects to meet the level of students' abilities. The intent of the program is to be accessible to middle and high school students where beginner builders can design and assemble their robots through trial and error.

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